Molluscan attractins, a family of water-borne protein pheromones with interspecific attractiveness

Peptides

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 121-129

  Cummins, Scott F ^a   Schein, Catherine H ^b   Xu, Yuan ^b   Braun, Werner ^b   Nagle, Gregg T ^a  

^a Univ Texas Med Br   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Albumen gland; Aplysia; Attractin; Bursatella leachii; Mollusk; Protein pheromone

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIN; PHEROMONE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; INVERTEBRATE; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

AMPHIBIA; APLYSIA; APLYSIA BRASILIANA; APLYSIA CALIFORNICA; APLYSIA VACCARIA; BURSATELLA LEACHII; INVERTEBRATA; VACCARIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 11144314747     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2004.07.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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